Jinx wrote:

> http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=1784381

> Russian and two Americans blast off

Now here you mix different contexts, that's why it's... hm... not "plain
wrong", but easy to misunderstand. 

Heck, why is this context thing so hard to understand? Is this a schooling
problem? :)

"Russian, Brazilian and American blast off": the context is "country".
"Eurasian and two Americans blast off": the context is "continent".

Both less easy to misunderstand than your version, because they maintain a
single context.

Gerhard

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